Mid-April, we learned that AMD was working on its next "TWKR" chip for overclockers, based on the existing "Vishera" silicon. It turns out it is, and scrapes 5.00 GHz frequency at some unreal TDP levels for a client processor. SweClockers reports that AMD is working on at least two new socket AM3+ FX-series processors to make it competitive against Intel's 4th generation Core series. Among these are the FX-9000, and the FX-8770. The FX-9000 leads the pack with 4.80 GHz out of the box clock speed, and a TurboCore frequency of 5.00 GHz. Clock speeds of the FX-8770, on the other hand, haven't been disclosed. A catch here is the TDP of these chips. Two hundred and twenty Watts! The jump from 3.80 GHz to 4.80 nearly doubled TDP from 125W to 220W. Prices of the two remain under the wraps. AMD plans to unveil the two at E3, sometime between 11th and 13th June.

These are special chips for those who want to have fun. AMD might release them with an H2O cooling system I'd venture as this would make it an easy package deal for a very high price only for those with too much money.

These are special chips for those who want to have fun. AMD might release them with an H2O cooling system I'd venture as this would make it an easy package deal for a very high price only for those with too much money.

Screw the watercooling. AMD should bundle it with an evaporator pot.
Unless I miss my guess I'd say the "9000" reference might be the MHz goal. 220 watts kind of points to high leakage parts for the LN/LHe crowd.
I'm also guessing that the motherboard support list might be quite short.

I'm waiting for some uninformed user to put one of these on a cheapie motherboard (under $120 or so) and either their CPU constantly throttles or the VRM section goes up in flames when they run IntelBurnTest or some other intense CPU benchmark/load.

I know the LGA 2011 chips push into that wattage range and Intel rates TDP differently than AMD, but damn, 220w TDP out of the box is ridiculous. If a dual AM3+ board somehow existed, I would rather have a pair of 8350s instead of feeding an extraordinary amount of energy to a single CPU clocked just 800-1000 MHz higher.

I'll believe this when I actually see an official announcement from AMD, not some random foreign website. Releasing a CPU with an *official* TDP of 220W would make AMD a laughingstock of reviewers, especially since a mildly overclocked Sandy Bridge 2500K would beat it in most single-threaded and lightly-threaded benchmarks at half the TDP.

Who's supposed to be the target market for this monstrosity? Even enthusiasts these days often try to keep power consumption and the resulting heat and noise under control. Extreme overclockers, who only care about GHz without regard to anything else, are a tiny niche. And these people are going to be abusing the hell out of the chip. Can you imagine the warranty claims on these things? What happens when someone installs one in a cheapo motherboard and it blows up or catches fire?

AMD does have a bright future, but it rests with stronger CPU/GPU integration (Kaveri) and an increase in their architecture's IPC to competitive levels (Steamroller). To release this rumored Centurion would be doubling down on the original Bulldozer fiasco, which AMD VP Andrew Feldman described as "without doubt an unmitigated failure".

It's possible they will be sold with nothing as a bare chip. Same thing as the TWKR chip was originally. That being said seeing how they are being sold with two different models with real part numbers they will likely just have a really nice cooler stock. Who knows could be a full tower cooler OEM.

one thing i dont understand is people s hared towards power. cooling is relatively cheap. electricity is cheap.
and there are plenty of 1gigawatt< power supplies. so yeahh more powah for more powah consumption is not bad. as long as the cheap ass china made motherboards can take it these days.

I'll believe this when I actually see an official announcement from AMD, not some random foreign website. Releasing a CPU with an *official* TDP of 220W would make AMD a laughingstock of reviewers, especially since a mildly overclocked Sandy Bridge 2500K would beat it in most single-threaded and lightly-threaded benchmarks at half the TDP.

I'll believe this when I actually see an official announcement from AMD, not some random foreign website. Releasing a CPU with an *official* TDP of 220W would make AMD a laughingstock of reviewers, especially since a mildly overclocked Sandy Bridge 2500K would beat it in most single-threaded and lightly-threaded benchmarks at half the TDP.

Who's supposed to be the target market for this monstrosity? Even enthusiasts these days often try to keep power consumption and the resulting heat and noise under control. Extreme overclockers, who only care about GHz without regard to anything else, are a tiny niche. And these people are going to be abusing the hell out of the chip. Can you imagine the warranty claims on these things? What happens when someone installs one in a cheapo motherboard and it blows up or catches fire?

AMD does have a bright future, but it rests with stronger CPU/GPU integration (Kaveri) and an increase in their architecture's IPC to competitive levels (Steamroller). To release this rumored Centurion would be doubling down on the original Bulldozer fiasco, which AMD VP Andrew Feldman described as "without doubt an unmitigated failure".